Improvement in prepared lumber for joiners  use



J. MULLAY.

Prepared Lumber for Joiners Use.

N0. 136,332 Patented Feb. 25, 373.

WITNESS ES- HYI/E/VTOR Unrrnn Srarns J OHN MULLAY, OF SOMERVILLE,MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN PREPARE D LUMBER FORJOINERS USE.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 136,332, dated February25, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J OHN MULLAY, of Somerville, in the county ofMiddlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and usefulMode of Preparing Lumber for the Finish of Houses and for otherpurposes, of which the following, taken in connection with theaccompanying drawing, is a specification:

The high price of first-class lumber and the consequent great cost ofbuilding houses and many other articles that are now made of pine lumberand painted has led me to the present invention; which consists incovering moldings, casings, mop-boards, and other parts of the finish ofa house or other structure with paper, cloth, or other thin flexiblematerial, and uniting said covering thereto by means of paste, glue, orother suitable adhesive material, the various pieces of lumber beingfirst dressed to the proper width and thickness for the purpose to whichthey are to be applied. It further consists in coati ng said pieces oflumber covered with paper, cloth, or other thin flexible size to protectthe surface from becoming soiled or injured by handling.

Figure l of the drawing is a cross-section of a window or door casing orpilaster embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a cross-section of a molding;and Fig. 3 is a cross-sec tion of a molding of a different pattern, eachembodying my invention.

In the drawing, Arepresents a door or window pilaster, or a narrowmop-board, or any other plain square-edged strip of finish, having itsface-side and its edges covered by the thin paper a, firmly securedthereto by paste, glue, or other suitable adhesive material, and coatedwith size to protect the surface from injury in handling, and also frombeingaffected by the atmosphere. B and D represent two styles of woodmoldings covered in the same manner. 1

By the use of this invention cheap lumber, such as heretofore it hasbeen impracticable to use in the finish of good houses and for manyother purposes, can be made available. For instance, knotty, pitchy, andshaky lummaterial with a the paper or cloth surface will be as good as 7two on wood.

In cases where it is desirable to have the? wood-work in imitation ofthe grain of certaingg wood, I propose to use a paper having an i mi-gtation of such grain printed thereon and var nish the work after it ispainting.

put up instead of I propose to prepare moldings, casings, pi-

lasters, and mop-boards, or strips of lumber of suitable widths andshapes to make such articles, by cutting them to the proper length andput them on the market as a new article of manufacture 5 but thecovering may be put on the several pieces at the time the work is putup, though I prefer the former plan, for the reason that the paste orglue will have time to become hard and the covering dry, which will makeit much easier to make good joints in cutting the material.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of theUnited States, is as follows:

As a new article of manufacture, a strip or strips of lumber dressed tothe proper width, thickness, and shape, in cross-section, for housefinish and various other purposes, having their face, sides, and edgescovered with paper, cloth, or other suitable thin flexible materialsecured thereto by means of paste, glue, or other adhesive material,with or without a coating of size, varnish, paint, or other protectivesubstances impervious to moisture, substantially as described.

Executed at Boston this 2d day of January, 1873.

. J 0l1l\ MULLAY.

Witnesses:

S. A. WOOD, N. O. LOMBARD.

and said articles when

